Key point: The defeat of a continental European power, Spain, was a major military accomplishment. The end of the Second World War is often considered the defining moment when the United States became ...

On July 1, 1898, the United States military achieved the most significant land victory of the Spanish-American War—the battle of San Juan, Cuba. On June 22, 1898, General William R. Shafter and the ...

History Seekers searches a fresh section of an old Alabama camp. The group finds bottle glass, tent hardware, harmonica ...

SPANISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE, the literature produced by the Spanish-speaking peoples of Mexico, Central America, Cuba and adjacent islands, and of South America with the notable exceptions of Brazil ...

Dennis Drabelle is a former contributing editor of Book World. Ambrose Bierce mocked it as the Yanko Spanko War. Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed opposed it. So did two former presidents, Grover ...

A painted four-panel folding screen that stands 6 feet tall and 10 feet wide is a touchstone for “Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500-1800,” a gorgeous new installation ...